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"How?"

"Ah!"

He eot up, and stood at the side of the fire, with

his heavy brown hand on the mantel-shelf He put a foot up to the bars,

to dry and waran to steam; but, he neither

looked at it, nor at the fire, but steadily looked at an to tremble

When my lips had parted, and had shaped some words that were

without sound, I forced h I could not do it

distinctly), that I had been chosen to succeed to soht a mere warmint ask what property?" said he

I faltered, "I don't know"

"Might a ain, "I don't know"

"Could I uess, I wonder," said the Convict, "at your incoure now Five?"

Withlike a heavy hammer of disordered action, I rose

out of

wildly at hiht to have been souardian, or such-like, whiles you was a minor Some lawyer, maybe As